Behaviorism

Behaviorism

by John B. Watson
Behaviorism

Behaviorism

by John B. Watson

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Overview

Preface: While this volume is written as a series of lectures and in a somewhat free and easy style, every effort has been made to present facts in unmutilated form and to state theoretical positions with accuracy. In approaching subjective psychology for the first time, the reader meets with one great difficulty. He comes in from the world of things-a world which he can manipulate, hold up, examine and change about. When he comes to subjective psychology, he leaves all this behind he has to face a world of intangibles, a world of definitions, and it takes him weeks to find out what this kind of psychology is about. Rare indeed is the individual who ever thoroughly awakens to the problems discussed in the general text books of introspective psychologies current today. . Because behavioristic psychology deals with tangibles, the reader sees no break between his physical, chemical, and biological world and his newly-faced behavioristic world. He may not like the simplicity and severity of behaviorism, but he cannot fail to understand Behaviorism if he but gives it a little honest reading. Therefore, the author hopes that this book will offer a happy approach to the whole field of psychology.....

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781446547168
Publisher: Read Books Ltd.
Publication date: 03/23/2011
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 260
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

John Watson (1878-1958) was an American psychologist who in the early 1900's codified and forcefully publicized behaviorism, which became the dominant school of psychology in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s. Watson served as professor of psychology at Johns Hopkins University, and also as lecturer at the New School for Social Research. In addition to Behaviorism he authored Psychology From the Standpoint of a Behaviorist.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION I. WHAT IS BEHAVIORISM? II. HOW TO STUDY HUMAN BEHAVIOR Ill. THE HUMAN BODY Part 1-The structures that make behavior possible. IV. THE HUMANB ODY Part 11-The glands in everyday behavior. V. ARE THERE ANY HUMAN INSTINCTS? Part I-On the subject of talent, tendencies and the inheritance of all so-called 'mental' traits. VI. ARE THERE ANY HUMAN INSTINCTS? Part 11-What the study of the human young teaches us. VII. EMOTIONS Part I-A general survey of the field and some experimental studies. VIII. EMOTIONS Part 11-Further experiments and observations on how we acquire, shift and lose our emotional life. IX. OUR MANUAL HABITS X. TALKING AND THINKING XI. DO WE ALWAYS THINK IN WORDS XII. PERSONALITY
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